Max Leuthäuser worked as a software engineer and IT consultant at itemis in Berlin, with a strong focus on language design, implementation and IDE development.
Performance benchmarking for Domain-specific Languages (DSLs) is rarely done at all. Customers usually do not want to edit and manage huge input models as the given DSL should provide a proper abstraction. Nevertheless, we have seen large performance differences ...
As a language engineer, you essentially have to deal with the parsing and the semantic analysis of (programming) languages. You get your hands dirty with carefully constructing compilers, interpreters, code generators, refactoring tools, and static code analyzers.
